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  4. Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly and mintCast
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  5. Open Hardware: RISC-V, Raspberry Pi, and More
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  8. today's howtos
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  9. KDE: Releases of KTextAddons and Haruna
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  15. Programming and Open Hardware Leftovers
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  18. Canonical/Ubuntu Self-Promotion and Announcements
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  21. BeagleY-AI: Powering Open Source Innovation with the Texas Instruments AM67A
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  23. Alyssa Rosenzweig, who spearheaded the reverse-engineering of Apple's GPU, to keynote LibrePlanet
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  25. Kdenlive 24.02.1 released
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  26. today's howtos
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  27. Today in Techrights
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  28. today's leftovers
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  29. Programming Leftovers
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  30. Istio, SQLite Viewer, and More Software
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  31. Security Leftovers
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  32. Linux-capable RISC-V soft cores for Achronix FPGAs
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